HeyBuzz

Hey! I'm Pete, and I'm a designer... and this is my blog - about web design, for web designers. Here you'll find all kinds of tips, tricks, information and inspiration linking, in some way, to web design.

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May 2008

  • Congratulations Brand Opus!

    Posted in I Like
    On Fri 30 May (Permalink, No Comments)

    Big congratulations to Brand Opus (where my beautiful girlfriend works) - who made it to number 80 in Design Weeks’ Top 100 Agencies! Considering they’ve only been around for a year - that’s a pretty impressive rise to fame.
    Download the Design Week Article |  Visit BrandOpus.co.uk

  • The Rissington Podcast

    Posted in Reference Tools, Web Development
    On Fri 30 May (Permalink, No Comments)

    Somehow, it tooks me until Episode 5 to discover the Rissington Podcasts. A brilliantly funny show by John Oxton and Jon Hicks (of Firefox fame). So if you can put up with the famer accents - this one’s definitely worth a listen!

  • Web Forms Design

    Posted in Reference Tools, Web Design
    On Thu 29 May (Permalink, No Comments)

    I’ve just been bought a book (thanks Jim) by Luke Wroblewski all about form design. The book explores all elements of form design and good practice, and even has a Flickr group to it’s name! Absolutely invaluable tool for web designers!
    Buy the book here

  • Design Rap

    Posted in Video, Web Design
    On Thu 29 May (Permalink, 1 Comment)

    I’m going away for a week - so enjoy this in my absence. Something I think my clients (and project managers) will be able to relate to:

  • Forms?

    Posted in Rant
    On Thu 29 May (Permalink, No Comments)

    There’s one thing I’m seeing more and more of – and that’s bad practice on forms. For example, a client of mine decided that on their registration form they would have over 20 fields. They had no excuse for it – they really only needed 3 or 4… But they got greedy, and now no-one [...]

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HeyBuzz is a collection of musings, learning's, tips and inspiration... mostly about digital stuff, as observed by Buzz.

Buzz is a sailor, skier, extreme sports enthusiast and designer living in London. He enjoys loud music, trying new things and talking crap. He doesn't really like reading though!

You can visit Buzz's sexy new design portfolio at BuzzGraphics.co.uk

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